Original Instructions

Original InstructionsJung said that Modern Man was in search of a soul, although even he did not seem to be aware that not one but two souls have gone missing. The plight of Modern Woman is worse as she has also lost touch with her feminine soul, Juno. Thumos is our forgotten soul which has been denied and repressed until re discovered by the classical scholar Prof. R. B. Onians. Thumos is the soul of breath related to blood, the sacred soul of the fully alive body. It is

Jung said that Modern Man was in search of a soul, although even he did not seem to be aware that not one but two souls have gone missing. The plight of Modern Woman is worse as she has also lost touch with her feminine soul, Juno.
Thumos is our forgotten soul which has been denied and repressed until re-discovered by the classical scholar Prof. R.B. Onians. Thumos is the soul of breath related to blood, the sacred soul of the fully alive body. It is the place where the ancient Greeks and Romans located their consciousness, the heart and lungs. When thinking happens around the heart, feeling and senses are bound together in a unity of consciousness.
In spite of all our material wealth in our Western World culture the physical body is a servant to cerebral thinking and the body, unconscious of its own soul and unable to convey its distress, becomes Ôdis-easedÕ. How different would it be if we were once more thumo-sophos Ð wise from our own body?